Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-16

! A Letter Wherein Are Narrated the Ex.
perienees of the Jedxe and MAaSy 81
the Trip to the Rig City TNr~rSsa
Devonshirr from the ScasA 81 Rasaana
Especial CrrasronasDcea
LONDON, haS Is.
We got away from Psnzance safe ard ~eri
back to Plymouth TO stay ali night, sos W,
/ rould come up to London in daylight and sas
| the ceuntly.
Ther was one thing noticed In Plymouth
| that ] forgot 20 speak about and that wss q
habit the mayors of the place has fell into
| namely, to wit--the erection of various me
| morial statutes in honor OF their mayorsi6y
| Fer instance, one has built big tower in al
| open place, In front of some public huilling
with clock set up nigh the top of 1t, which
he tends to at his own expense; another one
has built a fancy gateway to the park, and
named it after himself, and l reckon Others
was guilty OF the same weaknesses. Though
they did not come under my immediate eye
sight. While we was discussing these evi-
dences of the vanity of statesmen Mandy
surprised me by suggesting that ought to
40 something of the sort in Wayback.
well, Mandy" l says to her, "if you win
tell me how a congressman on S., 900 a year is
going 10 pay $4,000 to get elected and keep
himself and family on the balance, I'll try
and squeeze out a monument fund"
She couldn't do it, Of course, and that's one
of the reasons ] am forever feminist women
foolng with politics. They always fgger on
what an Office pays, without thinking about
what has to be paid to get hold of it,
We left Plymouth in the morning for Lon
don. taking second class tickets, because the
first class hotel we had stopped at had run our
treasury surplus down to a war basis, and,
besides, second class is about as good as first
class. These doggoned compartment cars are
a nuisance any way they can be fixed up and
il it wasn't for the sake of time and Mandy
I'd n long sight rather walk If we had them
in America they would be the cause of start
ing new political party inside of sixty days
They amt nothing but the English social
system on wheels The nobs ride first class,
the middlings take second, and the masses go
third. The masses in America dominate the
ballot box, and a candidate that would dare
to put on style and not go third class would
be scooped on the first deal.
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was amused on our way up by young
American, who had the English so bad that it
was breaking out all over him, and showing
clean through his clothes He was in our ca
boose, and there was also Sir Somebody, and
they got to talking. listened till l heard the
baronet ask him if Mr.. Arthur was president
of the United States, and then subsidized and
began to talk scenery to Mandy. / knowed
the young fellow first rate and had talked on
the subject of English aristocracy with him
till was posted on his weakness, and when
the Sir left the cars turned oh him:
"Now," I says to him, "you are always
foil at al,
of these titled Englishmen; what do you think
of this one, with a son married to an Amer-
can, too, as he says, who don't even know
who is the president of the United States, the
greatest and the grandest republic on Gods
green earth!'
"That's nothing, whatever" he stated in re-
ply, in scorny tone of voice. English gem
N hove irr else to think about be
sides country which they consider only q
fourth class power, if they consider it at all.
There are other things of much more inn
portance to them"
"They didn't seem to think so in 1776 and in
1872" says to him, billing hot; "but that's
got nothing to do with this case. What say
is that all educated Englishman that don't
know who the president of the United States
is is the same kind Of an Englishman that an
American Is an American who defends the
Englihman's ignorance"
This kind of settled him, but give him an
other when We got to London. There he
pointed out a cab with coat of arms on it
and said it belonged, with hundreds more
like it, to some duke or other.
"Does it," asst. "Well, will you tell me
what's the difference between duke that gifts
an income out of hack line and is duke, and
a livery stable keeper that does the same
thing and amt a dukep That time he
turned his back on me and refused to discuss
social questions with a man who thought $50
cial" and "sociability" meant the same thing.
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The road from Plymouth to London runs
through Devonshire, which is a much purifier
county than Cornwall and has a great deal
less stone fence than that hard deestrct. In
fact, it looked to me like we was riding
through Blue Grass Kentucky, only there was
a smell Of butterniilk pervadin' the atmos-
sressmen know more about i.
In every field there was herds of fine cattle
and sheep, and as far as l could see, there
wasn't an acre of land that was not taken
ARE Of as tenderly as if it had been a baby
Il the United States farms was run like these
English farms We would raise enough farm
products and garden truck to supply all the
,nown world and have surplus to ship off
o the planets. -.
On the way man pointed out to me the |
louse OF the late Lord Iddesleigh, states
nan after my own heart, and one that stood |
loseter to the hearts Of the people than any |
have heard spoken Of. The mousse is very !
lain brick one, with the farm spread out |
round it, and lots of farmers in America |
ave better ones. He wasn't Consolidated |
ord" and because he was a plain man, he |
vas solid with the masses. l thought as NV |
Informant talked about the dead man till |
he tears almost filled his eyes, that if when
was gone the people talked so of me l |
wouldn't want no better monument.
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We rushed along part of the time at fifty |
niles an hour, and while don't like compart-
nent cars, nor the ugly English engines. | do |